concentration camp
noun
: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard
—used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners
The Nazi soldiers hauled [Mordechai] Strigler off to a concentration camp, and carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor blade. Over the next five years, he was sent from one concentration camp or slave-labor camp to another.—
David Remnick
David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.—Marilyn Reynolds
Marilyn ReynoldsThe V2 killed thousands of British civilians while 20,000 concentration camp inmates died as slave labourers during its manufacture in the closing stages of the second world war.—Anna Tomforde et al.
see also death camp
Anna Tomforde et al.Examples of concentration camp in a Sentence
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These men helped secure victory in battles from Normandy to the Pacific and include soldiers who liberated Nazi concentration camps.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
They were confined to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.
—Kate Sosin, Them., 31 Oct. 2025
What To Know According to the Anti-Deformation League (ADL), the Totenkopf was adopted by the SS and was particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, which was responsible for guarding concentration camps.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Simmons immediately recalled his mother’s story in the Dachau concentration camp, noting that the past is anything but the past and that educational resources are vital toward breaking the cycle of antisemitic language and tropes.
—Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Nov. 2025
They were confined to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin.
—Kate Sosin, Them., 31 Oct. 2025
What To Know According to the Anti-Deformation League (ADL), the Totenkopf was adopted by the SS and was particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, which was responsible for guarding concentration camps.
—Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Simmons immediately recalled his mother’s story in the Dachau concentration camp, noting that the past is anything but the past and that educational resources are vital toward breaking the cycle of antisemitic language and tropes.
—Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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